Georgian-German black/doom metal/ambient project Abigorum dropped third full-length album »Foretaste Of Justice«

Georgian-German black/doom metal/ambient project Abigorum stream third full-length album, »Foretaste Of Justice«, which was released on August 13th, 2024 via Satanath Records / Vegvisir Distribution / No Balls Records / Fetzner Death Records.

Tracklist:
01. The Blood Flame (Die Blutflamme)
02. Effortlessly Into The Darkness (Mühelos in die Dunkelheit)
03. Behind The Sea Of Fog (Hinter dem Nebelmeer)
04. The Call Of The Desperate Mountains (Der Ruf der verzweifelten Berge)
05. Spirit Of The Earth (Geist der Erde)
06. Witness Of The Demise (Zeuge des Niedergangs)
07. Sometime Is Now (Irgendwann ist Jetzt)
08. At The End Of A New World (Am Ende einer neuen Welt)

Courtesy of Satanath Records:

Abigorum was founded by Aleksey Korolyov in April 2012 in Saint Petersburg. During this time were released: demo »Abigorum« in 2012, single »My Haemophilia« (about the musician’s own illness) in 2013, collaboration album »Unholy Ghost Liturgy« (with Cryostasium) in 2016 and split album »Spectral Shadows« (with Striborg) in 2018.

In January 2019 the band was joined by 2 musicians from Germany – Tino Thiele (from Phreneticum) and Sandra Batsch. Therefore, the band’s location became international. The genre of the project did not change, the decision was made to record the album in German. The first full-length album »Exaltatus Mechanism« was released in June 2019 on Satanath Records.

Sandra left the band in December 2020 and Abigorum became a duo. Aleksey and Tino released their second album »Vergessene Stille« in April 2021 on Duplicate Records (vinyl), Void Wanderer Productions (cassette) and Black Blood Records (CD). Aleksey Korolyov left Russia in March 2022, moving to Georgian city Batumi.

October 2022 saw the release of »The Call To Silence«, an Abigorum split with Ukrainian project Until My Funerals Began and Bolivian band Lachrima Corphus Dissolvens. After this split album, the project started recording the third full-length »Foretaste Of Justice«.

»Foretaste Of Justice« is an important chapter in the history of the project, whose genre has changed again, becoming even more melodic and epic. Comparing it to the previous works, the band’s departure from deliberate roughness and gloomy rawness in the music to well thought-out song structures and creating a spiritually uplifting atmosphere is clearly noticeable. The sound itself did not become light, but retained anger and pain, especially in the lyrics. The album absorbed all the experiences and thoughts of the musicians over the years, which makes it truly philosophical.

The release features Mitka Akkoyun, Dev (Divahar), Gvantsa Giorgadze (Askeesi/Deadsec) and Aina (Blackthorn), whose vocal parts are a real highlight of this opus. Jane Orpheus (Funere), Alexander Astashin, Arevik Melikyan and Elena Janashvili helped with lyrics and translation. Artwork by Noctember.

The album is released as digipak CD (500 copies), black vinyl (100 copies), yellow vinyl (100 copies) and yellow-blue splatter vinyl (100 copies). T-shirts will also be available soon.

Recorded and mixed in 2022-2023. Mastering by Robert Romagna (Audiostahl) in April 2024. Vocals and violin by Mitka Akkoyun recorded in February 2024 in Istanbul. Vocals by Dev recorded by Levon Hakhverdyan in February 2024 at Brevis Recording (Yerevan). Vocals by Gvantsa were recorded in March 2024 in Tbilisi. Vocals by Aina were recorded in December 2023 in Moscow.

The album is dedicated to Juha “Agathon” Hintikka (6.06.1968-30.05.2022) from Gloomy Grim, Ilya Trunov (28.02.1988-3.06.2021) from Daat and Evgeny Pilnikov (14.07.1993-18.09.2023) from Wintaar.

Co-release Satanath Records with Vegvisir Distribution, No Balls Records and Fetzner Death Records: new album »Foretaste Of Justice« of Georgian-German atmospheric black metal band Abigorum is out on August 13th, 2024!

Order yout copy here: satanath.bandcamp.com

Line-up:
Aleksey “Satanath” Korolyov (Georgia) – lyrics [track 8: part of Aina], drums, keys
Tino “Fluch” Thiele (Germany) – vocals and lyrics [tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7], guitars, bass

Guests:
Mitka Akkoyun – vocals and violin [track 4]
Dev (Divahar) – vocals and lyrics [track 4]
Gvantsa Giorgadze (Askeesi/Deadsec) – vocals and lyrics [track 8]
Aina (Blackthorn) – vocals [track 8]
Jane Orpheus (Funere) – lyrics [track 4: part of Mitka Akkoyun]
Alexander Astashin – translation [tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7]
Arevik Melikyan – translation [track 4: part of Dev]
Elena Janashvili – translation [track 8: part of Gvantsa Giorgadze]

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well